Sexisim Vs. Racism

I have heard this so many times over the course of the presidential campaign, so many people feel that "it is still ok to be a sexist, but you cannot be racist" in other words, some people feel that Hillary is having such hard time with her campaign (among other things) that there is a sense that it voters and others are a bit sexist and they do not fear being called that, they do however fear being called racist.

I thought about that for about two weeks, and I do not know if I completely agree with it, but assuming that there is a sense that sexism is not as bad as racism, I think there is a reason behind such mentality.

I guess, we all have women in our lives (mothers, sisters, significant others, spouses...etc.) in fact none of us here today would exit if it was not for our mothers (fathers help too.) Since we have so many females in our lives, we would like to think that these women love us and care for us. In other words, if the women in our lives had to vouch for us, they would say that we like them and they like us (in most cases)

However when it comes to race issues, not all of us have Asian friends, African friends, Hindu, Muslim friends or other ethnic friends. In some parts of the country, one might never see a person of color. So since the absence of that person, people are not sure how the "other" views them. They won't be sure that the person will vouch for them as not being racist.

We all have females in our lives, no matter what color or race you are, there is a woman in your life, but not all of us have a friend of other race of creed.

In other word, people are insecure about their relationship with people of other race, but they are positive of their relationship with the other gender.